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Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the latest debate over North Carolina’s congressional election map.
Published: Saturday, February 24th, 2024 @ 8:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Tucker Carlson delivered a speech on Friday contending that the American political debate has moved beyond a contest between rival policy positions and is now driven by factions with fundamentally “evil” objectives.
Published: Saturday, October 7th, 2023 @ 11:13 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the debate in the N.C. General Assembly over school calendar laws.
Published: Tuesday, March 14th, 2023 @ 4:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the roles of U.S. Reps. Dan Bishop and Patrick McHenry in the extended debate over a new U.S. House speaker.
Published: Thursday, January 26th, 2023 @ 1:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Sure as autumn leaves turn color and fall is the inevitable political debate season now upon us.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 @ 8:40 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Chris von Csefalvay writes for City Journal about the political debate surrounding face masks.
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2020 @ 9:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There’s no question that Donald Trump defies precedents set by prior presidents. With or without Trump, American partisan political divisions appear as stark today as anyone can remember.
Published: Thursday, March 5th, 2020 @ 8:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As we plunge into North Carolina’s 2020 election cycle I’ve been thinking about what is wrong with current debate models and what can be done to make them more interesting and informative.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2020 @ 8:15 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Views on initiatives or implementation may differ, but conceptually, school choice garners broad bipartisan support. It’s time to push past political polarization in rhetoric and debate. Ideas, not ideology, are winning the day.
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2019 @ 8:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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“Saturday Night Live” is back, and that means more political sketch comedy. During the season 45 premier there was a sketch about an “impeachment town hall” in which the Democratic presidential candidates debated the potential impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 9:11 am
By: Daily Wire
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Many people think of political debates solely in terms of left versus right. But some of the most interesting action today plays out within the competing camps dubbed “left” and “right.”
Published: Saturday, September 21st, 2019 @ 5:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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There has always been a robust political debate between advocates of free trade and advocates of manipulating the terms of trade to protect special interests
Published: Sunday, December 30th, 2018 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The great British statesman and writer Edmund Burke was a critic of his government's treatment of the American colonies in the years preceding the Revolutionary War
Published: Monday, November 26th, 2018 @ 6:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Not that it is really in my interest to say this, but many of our political debates are a waste of time
Published: Saturday, November 24th, 2018 @ 2:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Is there a return to civility in our future? Our political culture seems to be getting increasingly more toxic
Published: Wednesday, August 29th, 2018 @ 11:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the term “fake news” may be of recent vintage, the phenomenon isn’t. For decades, policymakers in North Carolina and elsewhere have trafficked in poorly understood, misleading, or demonstrably false information
Published: Friday, June 22nd, 2018 @ 10:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the aftermath of another horrible and heartbreaking mass shooting at an American school, the same political game took place that always takes place. That game breaks down into three stages: before the facts come in, once the facts are in, and the actual political debate
Published: Tuesday, February 20th, 2018 @ 6:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If you believe the political debate in North Carolina and the rest of the country has grown coarse, predictable, and unproductive, you're not alone
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2017 @ 10:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Anyone observing today's political landscape cannot escape the domination from the conservative right and the liberal left
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 @ 3:48 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Politically charged debates over teacher pay are nothing new
Published: Tuesday, June 6th, 2017 @ 2:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The science fiction pioneer H.G. Wells once observed that "human history is, in essence, a history of ideas."
Published: Saturday, October 15th, 2016 @ 10:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Much political debate in recent years has focused on income inequality in the United States and what, if anything, the federal government ought to do about it
Published: Saturday, October 8th, 2016 @ 7:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As a longtime critic of televised political debates I feel compelled to applaud Monday night's debate between our two presidential candidates
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2016 @ 11:04 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Recent debates about the legal challenge of North Carolina's 2013 election law highlight a particularly disturbing feature of present-day political discourse: Pundits and politicians frequently fail to acknowledge the important differences between a policy debate and a legal dispute
Published: Saturday, August 27th, 2016 @ 12:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As recent controversies in North Carolina and elsewhere have established, political debate is only partially about facts, principles, and logic
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2016 @ 8:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political pundits continue to debate the sources of Donald Trump's success during the 2016 Republican presidential primary process
Published: Saturday, May 28th, 2016 @ 12:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Do you wonder why political adversaries seem so often to talk past each other rather than produce useful debate on important issues? One reason is that, in many cases, they really aren't talking about the same things.
Published: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 @ 4:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has, over time, developed a reputation as a battleground state. Tar Heels may be surprised to learn, however, that North Carolinians, with opposing opinions, once unfortunately settled their political debate on an actual battleground -- the 1771 Battle of Alamance.
Published: Saturday, January 23rd, 2016 @ 4:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the 2016 election cycle approaches, North Carolina voters will witness a spirited political debate about how best to promote economic growth
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 9:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Politicians have two main rhetorical tools as their disposal. When they want to build rapport with voters, they pull out a trusty anecdote
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 9:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political discussion often involves debate over competing ideas. But some partisans want no debate. They would rather declare certain views off-limits. It's a tactic that disturbs Guy Benson and Mary Katharine Ham, co-authors of the book End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts...
Published: Friday, September 11th, 2015 @ 9:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The political left is relying more and more on manufactured outrage to shut down debate on a range of political topics. That's the warning delivered in the book End Of Discussion, and it's the message the book's authors shared Monday with a John Locke Foundation audience.
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2015 @ 1:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday the political discussion shows of Sunday morning were consumed with THE FIRST DEBATE scheduled for Thursday this week.
Published: Monday, August 10th, 2015 @ 2:53 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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The U.S. Supreme Court might have saved Obamacare from having to operate as written, but the landmark decision in King v. Burwell has not deterred those on the right side of the political debate from focusing on making health ins
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 4:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Commissioner Hood Richardson has long found his political center at the heart of debate of just who pays for government and how much they will be accorded that responsibility.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 2:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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After a decade of political debate, Open Internet Rules have finally been established by the FCC.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 1:48 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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I suppose if you thought Kay Hagan's reelection campaign was a brilliant exercise in political rhetoric, you might try to reuse her talking points to win the political debates of 2015 or the political races of 2016.
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2015 @ 11:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We've got a political debate that's sure to draw a lot of media attention here in town Monday night.
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 5:33 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Think that the quality of political debate in North Carolina is low and declining? I agree. For a recent, telling example of the problem, consider the debate about North Carolina's participation in Common Core.
Published: Saturday, May 24th, 2014 @ 3:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The political debate in North Carolina has me seeing double. A double standard, that is. On Tuesday, longtime Duke University health care scholar Chris Conover testified before the General Assembly's new Joint Study Committee on the Affordable Care Act and Implementation Issues. Conover's...
Published: Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 @ 11:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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